Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC launches StrategyDriven Advisory Services, a management consulting firm dedicated to helping executives and managers define organizational needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

He has expanded his research and applied his theories to other industries like health care, higher education and even governments and tax systems. I found two recent articles about Clayton Christensen that have increased my understanding about leadership: The first is published in the BYU Magazine’s Spring 2013 edition. (As

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Successful project managers know that the success of their project hinges on the development of a solid plan, the diverse consideration of integration challenges, and the right evaluation of resources. You just finished reading Project Management - What is Critical Chain? ! Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

There I observed a wide array of Abbott executives, scientists and managers. I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Online and Outage Work Management.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 22, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. They also do not have tenured management teams in place to run the business after the sale, leaving the buyer with a larger than desired responsibility. We take all of our clients through this GPS system.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Every organization is challenged by risks manifest through its many different day-to-day operations. To help monitor and manage these risks, most organizations employ groups providing performance and compliance risk assurance so that significantly adverse consequences are avoided. Corporate Risk Analysis, Management, and Mitigation.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 20, 2013

Most managers would acknowledge that the use of efficient metrics is a key component to the successful planning, tracking, and execution of projects. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 12, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. They also do not have tenured management teams in place to run the business after the sale, leaving the buyer with a larger than desired responsibility. We take all of our clients through this GPS system.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

95 on the 2013 list, Mars boasts employees who love not only the products they make but also the office culture and the company's long-standing principles. For example, a typical Mars plant manager influences associates by his or her ability to pace development of operational systems and innovative approaches.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 20, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. They also do not have tenured management teams in place to run the business after the sale, leaving the buyer with a larger than desired responsibility. We take all of our clients through this GPS system.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

During this time, we raised the quality systems and actual performance to allow exports of Australian-made Nissans to Japan. I started my career in purchasing; migrated to sales and marketing; moved to manufacturing, mining, and then general management in a business operating in 40 countries.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Over 90% of business operations are now stored digitally, so this increase is not surprising. After the 2013 Yahoo data breach and the recent Equifax hack, operating without proper security measures in place is no longer acceptable. A better information structure allows you to manage access to sensitive information meticulously.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2013

While many requirements necessitate one-time actions, others govern ongoing business operations. Compliance with regulatory requirements governing ongoing, dynamic operations benefit from dedicated performance measures. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. To read Nathan’s complete biography, click here.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 18, 2014

This compensation system gives everyone–coach, client, and stakeholders—an important role in the process. My dad operated a two-pump gas station. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. This “pay-for-results” idea wasn’t mine.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 27, 2017

I believe Encore’s runaway success was directly tied to this shift in management philosophy and culture. You’re able to face criticism with confidence and courage When the collections industry later came under fire, Encore felt confident they had nothing to hide about how they operate.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Non-value-added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Overproduction , the first of the 8 biggest wastes of Lean Operations, focuses on the unnecessary production of product before the customer demands it. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Non-value added ‘wastes’ are a drain on the productivity of your operations and cost you in schedule, quality, and capital. Costing the organization in excess material costs, holding costs, and potentially obsolescence costs, this waste can cost the organization upwards of millions of dollars in annual operations funds.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

. “By fostering an organizational culture that puts safety-first, executives and managers create a workplace environment where errors are recognized and proactively corrected before they result in a material event.” Download the white paper by clicking here. About the Authors.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2013

A growing number of organizations are moving toward having more pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) by turning to evidence-based decision making supported by a range of BI and analytics technology and processes that enable decision makers to have the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. The new system involves photographing customers, and gathering demographic information in real time. The reason?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2013

All high-performing organizations continually look for ways to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. Greg Gaskey is a StrategyDriven Principal with over twenty years of nuclear plant operations, maintenance, and large-scale program and project management experience. To read Greg’s complete biography, click here.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

For over twenty years, he has served as trusted advisor to executives and managers at dozens of Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the areas of management effectiveness, organizational development, and process improvement. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Enterprise Performance Measurement.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 30, 2013

Over time, leaders can grow their performance measurement systems to include almost countless numbers of interrelated metrics. We can work with you to assess and improve your performance measurement system; yielding metrics and reports that are operationally relevant, organizationally consistent, and economically implemented.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Automated performance notifications can be configured in several ways and tailored to the communication preference of the individual executive or manager. Common system generated notification mechanisms include: The text above is only a small portion of this article. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

But we have come to tolerate the illusion that the essential matters of work can be invented, managed, and sustained through the creation, storage, retrieval, display, and publication of information. What was invented as a means to replace the post office has now become the most common management tool in organizations.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs.

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HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

Her vision has lead IBM to venture into innovative management systems, ones that empower the employees and facilitate continuous learning through technology. Coming out of the internet era, we were all geared up for process standardization, manager self-service and shared services. And of course, business acumen.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2013

The paper describes how best practices in measuring organizational performance in the nuclear power industry can be applied to healthcare providers facing the daunting challenge of concurrently increasing production, efficiency, and quality – all while reducing operating costs. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

To flourish in today’s business environment, organizations and individuals need to transition from the outdated Alpha system to the fast-growing Beta paradigm. Copyright © 2013 by Dana Ardi and reprinted by permission of St. Earlier in her career, Dr. Ardi was an operating executive at R. From Fall of the Alphas by Dana Ardi.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Despite the realization that computer software greatly enhances the efficiency with which businesses operates, the use of recruitment software is not widespread. Using an online recruitment package allows job applicants to be automatically narrowed down via a system of pre-screening questions. Quality Pre-Screening.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 10, 2017

Businesses that have a deep appreciation for what their customers, and potential customers, desire and that create systems to deliver solutions that delight those customers benefit greatly from that effort. And even within that system they can segment the offering a bit and create coach class, business class and first class.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2014

Peter Fingar, co-author of Business Process Management : The Third Wave , then asks these measurement corollaries in his 2013 article “How Do Your BPM Metrics Measure Up?”. Make Metrics Visible and Accessible – Having workers, managers, supervisors, and executives see metrics helps employees make decisions and take action.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

While my work is usually associated with the term “Lean” and the lessons from the Toyota Production System, some of my earliest learning and inspiration for improvement came from the work of W. I proposed that we scrap our existing points-based attendance system and the requirements to attend. Guest post by Mark Graban.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

How do we create the future while managing the present? The Outward Mindset : Seeing Beyond Ourselves by The Arbinger Institute Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Blog Post ). Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner James M.

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